This is an incomplete list of former heads of regimes, like Presidents, Prime Ministers, Monarchs, who were sentenced to death by the succeeding regime following their removal from power.
| Names indexed by surnames | Countries | Dates born | Official positions | Dates died | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antonescu, Ion | Romania | 1882-06-15 | Prime Minister (1940-1944) | 1946-06-01 | Executed by firing squad |
| Bagryanov, Ivan Ivanov | Bulgaria | 1891-10-29 | Prime Minister (1944) | 1945-02-01 | Executed |
| Bayar, Celal | Turkey | 1883-05-16 | President (1950-1960), Prime Minister (1937-1939) | 1986-08-22 | Sentence commuted; released in 1964 |
| Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali | Pakistan | 1928-01-05 | President (1971-1973), Prime Minister (1973-1977) | 1979-04-04 | Executed by hanging |
| Bokassa, Jean-Bédel | Central African Republic | 1921-02-22 | Emperor (1976-1979), President (1966-1976) | 1996-11-03 | Sentence commuted; released in 1993 |
| Bozhilov, Dobri | Bulgaria | 1884-06-13 | Prime Minister (1943-1944) | 1945-02-01 | Executed |
| Ceauşescu, Nicolae | Romania | 1918-01-26 | President (1967-1989) | 1989-12-25 | Executed by firing squad |
| Charles I of England | England | 1600-11-19 | King (1625-1649) | 1649-01-30 | Executed by decapitation |
| Chen Gongbo | China (Wang Jingwei Government) | 1892 | President (1944-1945) | 1946 | Executed by firing squad |
| Chun Doo-hwan | Korea, South | 1931-01-18 | President (1980-1988) | Living | Sentence commuted; released in 1997 |
| Filov, Bogdan | Bulgaria | 1883-04-09 | Prime Minister (1940-1943) | 1945-02-02 | Executed |
| Hoveida, Amir-Abbas | Iran | 1919-02-18 | Prime Minister (1965-1977) | 1979-04-07 | Executed by firing squad |
| Liang Hongzhi | China, Reformed Government of the Republic of | 1882 | Chairman (1938-1940) | 1946-11 | Executed by firing squad |
| Louis XVI of France | France | 1754-08-23 | King (1774-1792) | 1793-01-21 | Executed by decapitation (guillotine) |
| Macías Nguema, Francisco | Equatorial Guinea | 1924-01-01 | President (1968-1979) | 1979-09-29 | Executed |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | Scotland | 1542-12-08 | Queen of Scotland (1542-1567) | 1587-02-08 | Beheaded by order of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England, to prevent her inheriting the English throne. |
| Massemba-Débat, Alphonse | Congo, Republic of the | 1921 | President (1963-1968), Prime Minister (1963) | 1977-03-25 | Executed |
| Menderes, Adnan | Turkey | 1899 | Prime Minister (1950-1960) | 1961-09-17 | Executed by hanging |
| Mengistu Haile Mariam | Ethiopia | 1937 or 1941 | Head of State (1977-1987), President (1987-1991) | Living | in absentia |
| Mussolini, Benito | Italy | 1883-07-29 | Prime Minister (1922-1943) | 1945-04-28 | Executed by firing squad |
| Nagy, Imre | Hungary | 1896-06-07 | Prime Minister (1953-1955, 1956) | 1958-06-16 | Executed by hanging |
| Najibullah, Mohammad | Afghanistan | 1947 | President (1987-1992) | 1996-09-27 | Executed by hanging |
| Nicholas II of Russia | Russian Empire | 1868-05-18 | Emperor (1894-1917) | 1918-07-17 | Executed |
| Pétain, Philippe | France, Vichy | 1856-04-24 | Head of State (1940-1944) | 1951-07-23 | Sentence commuted to life imprisonment |
| Quisling, Vidkun | Norway | 1887-07-18 | Minister President (1942-1945) | 1945-10-24 | Executed by firing squad |
| Saddam Hussein | Iraq | 1937-04-28 | President (1979-2003) | 2006-12-30 | Executed by hanging |
| Tojo, Hideki | Japan | 1884-12-30 | Prime Minister (1941-1944) | 1948-12-23 | Executed by hanging |
| Traoré, Moussa | Mali | 1936-09-25 | President (1968-1991) | Living | Sentence commuted; released in 2002 |
| Zinsou, Émile | Dahomey (now Benin) | 1918-03-23 | President (1968-1969) | Living | in absentia |
Famous quotes containing the words sentenced to death, list of, list, heads, sentenced and/or death:
“Once you are involved in politics, the most difficult thing is to go for hang [be sentenced to death]....We can’t cry over what has happened to us because other people suffer lots more than we suffer.... until you are killed, you can’t say that you have really suffered.”
—Ela Ramgobin (b. 1941)
“I made a list of things I have
to remember and a list
of things I want to forget,
but I see they are the same list.”
—Linda Pastan (b. 1932)
“I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior F.B.I.- men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep- hole and missing laundry list school.... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“As some heads cannot carry much wine, so it would seem that I cannot bear so much society as you can. I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough of it this year, I shall cry all the next.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Bruno Antony: Tell me, Judge, after you’ve sentenced a man to the chair, isn’t it difficult to go out and eat your dinner after that?
Judge Dolan: When a murderer is caught he must be tried, when he is convicted he must be sentenced, when he is sentenced to death he must be executed.
Bruno Antony: Quite impersonal, isn’t it?
Judge Dolan: So it is. Besides, it doesn’t happen every day.
Bruno Antony: So, few murderers are caught?”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“Only death rescues us from dying.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)